While the description and theoretical analysis of isolated levels of text structure has matured substantially over the last thirty years, we are only beginning to understand the interaction between different levels and the surplus literary effects created by such interactions. In addition to methods of formal syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, strongly empirically oriented subdisciplines of linguistics such as corpuslinguistic and psycholinguistic have provided central insights for the study of linguistic phenomena beyond the sentence level. It is also necessary to include typological and variationist perspectives to identify the full range and the relative impact of factors and means exploited in the structuring of text in the languages of the world.

We welcome submissions addressing issues of text structure form various perspectives such as syntax, formal semantics and pragmatics, typology, psycholinguistics, or computational linguistics. The topics may include but are not restricted to